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This project investigates (mis)perceptions of homelessness, crime, and safety among different groups of people in a mid-sized suburban city in British Columbia. The goal of this project is to create a fact-based counter-narrative that both challenges and changes widely held truths about homelessness, crime and safety in this community.
This research has received funding from the British Columbia Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Office of Crime Reduction and Gang Outreach, Crime Reduction Research Program (CRRP_2018-19_03). The research team on this project consists of Drs. Carrie Sanders, Erin Dej, and Jessica Braimoh and their work is supported by three undergraduate research assistants.
The project involves interviewing a diverse group of stakeholders, each with a relationship to homelessness. Forty-six interviews were conducted with people with lived experience of homelessness, service providers, housed residents, and the police. Data collection was completed in November 2019. Analysis of the interview data has commenced, and the research team will be presenting the research results at conferences during 2020.